The Spectator, 10. köideWilliam Durell and Company, 1810 |
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... verses on his mistress's dancing , is , I believe , too thoroughly in love to compose correctly . I have too great a respect for both the universitie to praise one at the expense of the other . Tom Nimble is a very honest fellow , and I ...
... verses on his mistress's dancing , is , I believe , too thoroughly in love to compose correctly . I have too great a respect for both the universitie to praise one at the expense of the other . Tom Nimble is a very honest fellow , and I ...
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... verse , and so cannot be supposed to want that which he communicated , without diminishing from the pleni- tude of his own power and happiness . The philoso- phers before - mentioned have indeed done all that in them lay to invalidate ...
... verse , and so cannot be supposed to want that which he communicated , without diminishing from the pleni- tude of his own power and happiness . The philoso- phers before - mentioned have indeed done all that in them lay to invalidate ...
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... verses which were lately sent me by an unknown hand , as I look upon them to be above the ordinary run of son- netteers . The author tells me they were written in one of his despairing fits ; and , I find , entertains some hope that his ...
... verses which were lately sent me by an unknown hand , as I look upon them to be above the ordinary run of son- netteers . The author tells me they were written in one of his despairing fits ; and , I find , entertains some hope that his ...
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... , a vanity of being thought in the secrets of world , or from a desire of gratifying any of these positions of mind in those persons with whom we verse . The publisher of scandal is more or less odious to 74 No. THE SPECTATOR .
... , a vanity of being thought in the secrets of world , or from a desire of gratifying any of these positions of mind in those persons with whom we verse . The publisher of scandal is more or less odious to 74 No. THE SPECTATOR .
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... verses comes from one of my correspondents , and has something in it so ori- much doubt but it will divert my I. ' My time , ye muses , was happily. BY DR . BYROM . When walking with Phebe , what sights have I . 603 . 111 THE SPECTATOR . ..
... verses comes from one of my correspondents , and has something in it so ori- much doubt but it will divert my I. ' My time , ye muses , was happily. BY DR . BYROM . When walking with Phebe , what sights have I . 603 . 111 THE SPECTATOR . ..
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Page 215 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Page 17 - I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
Page 217 - ... there is all Nature cries aloud Through all her works). He must delight in virtue ; And that which He delights in must be happy. But when ? or where ? This world was made for Caesar — I'm weary of conjectures — this must end them.
Page 215 - It must be so — Plato, thou reasonest well ; Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? Tis the divinity that stirs within us ; 'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man ! Eternity ! thou pleasing, dreadful thought ! Through what variety of untried being, Through what new scenes...
Page 217 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Page 70 - Pyrrhus's ring, which, as Pliny tells us, had the figure of Apollo and the nine Muses in the veins of it, produced by the spontaneous hand of nature, without any help from art.
Page 206 - It is to this same haste and impatience of the mind also, that a not due tracing of the arguments to their true foundation is owing ; men see a little, presume a great deal, and so jump to the conclusion.
Page 48 - ... whosoever looketh into himself and considereth what he doth, when he does think, opine, reason, hope, fear, &c, and upon what grounds, he shall thereby read and know, what are the thoughts and passions of all other men upon the like occasions.
Page 31 - ... which goes under the name of Tirzah. Harpath was of a haughty contemptuous spirit; Shalum was of a gentle disposition, beloved both by God and man. It is said that among the antediluvian women, the daughters of Cohu had their minds wholly...
Page 196 - ... in all ages. Were his repentance upon his neglect of a good bargain, his sorrow for being over-reached, his hope of improving a sum, and his fear of falling into want, directed to their proper objects, they would make so many different Christian graces and virtues. He may apply to himself a great part of St.